On January 20, 2021, the TV series "Crush on Orange Sheng Huainan" starring Hu Dayi and Hu Bingqing was broadcast on Mango TV and Tencent Video. The play is adapted from the novel of the same name written by writer August Chang'an, one of the "Zhenhua Trilogy".
The so-called "Zhenhua Trilogy" refers to the collective name of three campus novels published by Chang'an in August from 2009 to 2013, set in Zhenhua High School, namely "Hello, Old Time", "Crush on Orange Sheng Huainan", and "Best Time".
The author, August Chang'an, formerly known as Liu Wanhui, a native of Harbin, was born on August 12, 1987, and was admitted to Peking University in 2006 with excellent results in the Harbin Liberal Arts Award, and graduated from the Guanghua School of Management of Peking University in 2010. After graduation, he worked as a company clerk in the financial industry for three years, and then resigned to write novels full-time.
August Chang'an's delicate brushstrokes write about the youthful appearance and throbbing of many people's hearts. In the three novels, the protagonists' alma mater "Zhenhua Middle School" is based on the author's high school "Hasan Middle School", and some storylines and scenes can even be found in Hasan.
"Hello, Old Time" stills, Yu Zhouzhou, Lin Yang
"Hello, Old Time" is the first work of August Chang'an, but also her famous work, the earliest published on the Internet, the original name of "Mary Sue Case Report", after being photographed by the publishing house, the author was afraid of "strange book title" to scare off the audience, so it was changed to "Hello, Old Time".
Note: Mary Sue, a nascent buzzword in the literary world, is a transliteration of mary sue, generally referring to a protagonist who is not in a real plot fiction in the same humanities, this protagonist is often more "perfect", has a complex relationship with the popular characters in the real plot, and often receives the attention of the protagonist. Now, Mary Sue is no longer limited to the definition of "perfect", and can be divided into two categories: "perfect Sue" and "ordinary Sue".
In this book, August Chang'an poured out his childhood Mary Sue fantasies into it, and there was no small ideal that came true in childhood, and the heroine Yu Zhou Zhoudu realized it for August Chang'an one by one. "Hello, Old Time" tells the story of the heroine Yu Zhouzhou and her childhood friend Lin Yang, who continue to grow up in the bondage and family trivia of Zhenhua Middle School.
The male and female protagonist's high school classmate Micho is seriously ill but the positive energy is still bursting, the big brother Chen Eucalyptus, who grew up safely and safely, wants to make up for his childhood shortcomings in this way, and Wen Miao, a transfer student who is always calm and unhurried in the novel, makes shrimp impressed... Many characters crossed the lives of Yu Zhou Zhou and Lin Yang like shooting stars, and the moment they appeared, the night sky added a different kind of brilliance.
It is never only the protagonist who shines, but also those who strive to shine in their respective lives.
Stills from the TV series "Crush on Orange Sheng Huainan"
"Crush • Orange Sheng Huainan" tells the story of a girl's fifteen-year-long crush, compared with "Hello Old Time", there is less sunshine, more restraint, forbearance and repression.
The heroine Luo Yu is somewhat shadowy of the author's youth, and it is said that this novel is the work of August Chang'an","Looking for the same kind" (if "Hello Old Time" is looking for resonance, then "Crush" is looking for the same kind. ——August Chang'an), she projected her eight-year-long crush experience into the heroine's story, and the sense of truth is very resonant with many readers, and those small actions are delicate and true youth footnotes.
The novel has been remade twice, once in 2019 as a web series starring Zhu Yanmanzi and Zhao Shunran, and the second time as a TV series starring Hu Yi and Hu Bingqing that was launched on Mango and Tencent Video this year (January 20, 2021). Both film and television dramas are very respectful of the original work, and the scenes, lines, and human settings are mostly very consistent with the descriptions in the novel. The former is more grounded, the actors are "nobody", the appearance of ordinary good-looking but very attractive kind, the real people, there is no particularly eye-catching protagonist aura, just like the ordinary and excellent classmates around the student era, the scene is slightly retro, in line with the story background in the novel - there was no smart phone at that time, the small Nokia storage space was small, and when the information was full, it had to be checked one by one, picked and deleted, the Internet at that time was not so powerful now, and the unexpected encounter after passing by was particularly precious.
Stills from the web drama "Crush on Orange Sheng Huainan"
The new version starring Erhu is simply not too eye-catching! Shrimp this Yan dog is very satisfied, the filter is very beautiful, the hazy, shy, beautiful "visible to the naked eye", the beginning of the plot is too jumpy, dragging, and then the two xueba open the "ambiguous circumlocution" mode is very sweet, very interesting, very knowledge (biology, physiology, law ... ), the theme song "Long Confession" is very heartfelt, Shuangsheng's voice is sweet and not greasy, sincere and gentle, the lyrics written by Duan Sisi "I have no second choice except you", many netizens exclaimed "Absolutely!" ”。
Poster of the lyrics of the theme song "The Long Confession" of the TV series "Crush"
Group photo of the starring actor of the TV series "Crush on Orange Sheng Huainan"
"The Best of Us" Geng Geng and Yu Huai
"The Best of Us" tells the story of geng geng, an ordinary high school student, and Yu Huai, a bully at the same table, who grew up together. Geng Geng is the only scum protagonist in this series of novels, by chance, after encountering "SARS", the difficulty of the examination paper was reduced, and he was admitted to Zhenhua Middle School, the cradle of the school bully, and when he was in school, he met a group of good friends, especially Yu Huai at the same table, who grew up together in ordinary small things, spent his youth in youth, and looked forward to a better future.
"The Best of Us" is the latest "Zhenhua Story" in the "Zhenhua Series" but the earliest adaptation into a TV series, starring Liu Haoran and Tan Songyun, and broadcast on iQiyi Video on April 8, 2016. The clever and optimistic Geng Geng and sunny and cheerful Yu Huai, who are a little narcissistic in the play, are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the two leading actors have also greatly increased their popularity because of this drama, and now the drama road is getting wider and wider, active on the screen, and is loved by the audience.
Before seeing a reader leave a message to August Chang'an, it basically means that people's feelings have a shelf life, after the deadline, many of your feelings, a lot of small emotional throbbing will no longer exist, and it will become a very difficult thing to re-gaze at it and describe it. August Chang'an also knows the reality of this sentence, which was very prolific in those years and quickly completed these three stories about campus youth. Later, she did not publish any new novels, perhaps her youth story has been completely overdrawn, those emotions, emotions have been written, forgotten, and finally returned to calm, if you let her write youth stories, I am afraid it is difficult to write the same touching works as the previous Zhenhua trilogy.
Each of us has our own unique youth story, in other people's stories to find resonance is an instinct, if you can't find it, you can write it yourself, I don't know how many people will stop, think with you, and reminisce together.
"Zhenhua" has now become a symbol of youth, and the story is not only shining with the male and female protagonists, but also every one of us who have tried to run forward in their youth.
1. Baidu Encyclopedia "August Chang'an" "Hello, Old Time", "Crush Orange Sheng Huainan" "The Best of Us"
2. "Crush on Orange Sheng Huainan" novel and TV series
3. Hello, Old Time novels and TV series
4. The Best of Us novels and TV series
5. Some of the information that Shrimp has seen about August Chang'an in the past, including her Weibo, Zhihu answers related to her, etc., has a long time, dug out of memory, and the provenance is untestable.
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